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Establishing an Account Management Program is one of the most critical strategies any organization can deploy to optimize customer relationships. Strategic Account Management is an enterprise-wide initiative focused on developing more strategic, meaningful relationships (higher, wider, deeper) that enable the customer and supplier to work in concert toward mutual goals and objectives for creating mutual gains.

Every business has embarked on a journey to identify their top accounts – those account relationships that influence their destiny. An effective Strategic Account Management Program provides the process, methodology, skills, infrastructure, best practices and tools that will lead to improved customer relationships and increased revenue and profitability within these top accounts.

The Chapman Group’s proprietary approach to Strategic Account Management, SMARTS™ (Strategic Mega Account Resource TeamS), is a cross-functional team-based, proactive, customer-centric engagement process designed to meet the challenges of managing today’s complex accounts. It isan integrated methodology for acquiring and assessing critical account information, establishing high-level account relationships, and managing opportunities and outcomes. The SMARTS™ process (predictable, repeatable, and measurable) includes recommended operational “best practices” to enable Account Teams to align their business goals and objectives with the business goals and objectives of the Customer.

Our SMARTS™ approach will help you and your organization to:

Establish a standardized Account Management Process with tools, metrics and measures to institutionalize best practices

Elevate the skills of your Account Managers and Account team through training on best practices (skills and process)

Proactively engage with customers to understand their strategic direction including goals, objectives and business needs

Implement and coach to metric-based Strategic Account Plans (SAP) with strategies and tactics to help achieve both customer and supplier goals and objectives

Identify and deliver on opportunities that create quantifiable mutual value –Return on Investment (ROI) and Return on Effort (ROE)

Our Company:

The Chapman Group, founded in 1988, is a consulting firm that solves sales and account management challenges resulting in stronger relationships, increased revenues, and higher margins. We assist clients of all sizes, across a broad spectrum of industries, through the implementation of innovative processes, methodologies, best practices, skills and tools.